Open Thread 12-6

I have been perplexed by seeing men who read about sexual assault and workplace harassment and whose takeaway is that you can’t even flirt anymore. The AP decided to add to the genera here. (h/t)

I don’t know, dudes. If you read the dozens of Weinstein stories, and your take away is I can’t ask about your weekend or compliment your haircut, maybe you shouldn’t. If you can’t tell the difference between a friendly hug and a creepy one, yeah, no hugs at work. Sorry, you don’t seem to know what harmless flirting is, so maybe don’t try it out at work.

Here’s two simple fucking rules for the “dudes”: Would you do or say it to a male co-worker? Would you do or say it to the boss? If the answer is no, then don’t do it.

If you find yourself working “hugging” into the context of “flirting at work” that just might be useful information. If “hugging” is a part of your “game” leave it at the door. If you find yourself routinely working questions about sexual positions into casual non-flirtatious conversations around the coffee urn you need to just shut the fuck up.

Sexual harassment, as both Doctor Dumbfuck and Garrison Keillor seem unable to comprehend, hinges ultimately on consent. The rules in the workplace or professional setting are not the same as the rules in a purely elective social setting. If you happen to find yourself in the unfortunate position of having inexorably committed the first 20 years of your adult life to a dubious career choice that eliminates your social life in exchange for endless hours of studying and smelling the ball cheese of sterno bums there is an answer: Tinder.

@2 Wherein Doctor Dumbfuck asserts sexual harassment is essential to the survival of his species. I can see the GOP adopting this as their platform in 2018. By then they’ll be desperate to divert attention away from their middle class tax increase and the Trump family’s crimes.

Wow, the bravery displayed by the nation’s top Democrats today is just astounding.

Tom Perez ✔ @TomPerez Sen. Al Franken should step down. Everyone must share the responsibility of building a culture of trust and respect for women in every industry and workplace, and that includes our party. 9:14 AM – Dec 6, 2017

Perez apparently borrowed the spine shared by the seven women of his party who preceded him with their own announcements today. He prefers not to have his own. Probably similar to the way YLB borrows heels.

14,“Pence, maybe.” Not if your beloved Pussy Grabbing Orange Shitgibbon has anything at all to say about it. Now that Fuckface knows that Priebus and Pence conspired to dump him from the ticket after Access Hollywood we can conclude a couple of things: The friendly relationship between colleagues is a put on; Fuckface has promised to take them down with him.

He owns you. All of you. And it case you hadn’t been paying any attention, that means a communist dictator owns you as well. Buttery males.

You must be expecting a Democratic wave in 2018, because no rational person of your education and erudition could possibly believe a party that looks the other way at rapists and child molesters would bounce its fuhrer from office for second-tier crimes like treason, collusion, corruption, money laundering, and obstruction of justice, .

In 2019 there are sure to be a lot of fresh, new Democrat faces in Congress. It’s just that they’ll be the ones appointed to replace those Democrat legislators forced to resign due to credible sexual harassment allegations.

Over the years I’ve posted links to a couple hundred news stories of Republicans being busted for rape, pedophilia, beastiality and their unfortunate habit, from Hawaii to Florida, of soliciting black undercover police officers in public parks to allow the Republican to blow them in the park toilet if they give the black man $20.

Another peculiarity of Republican men is their habit of wearing clown or animal costumes when they rape children.

This has been going on for years. Doctor Dumbfuck is part of the problem.

@31 Meanwhile, all the Republican gropers and rapists will still be there, with the addition of a child molester, because none of them have the decency to leave when they should. And shame on the dupes and morons who vote for them.

Out of character for Dumbfuck who is always looking for a hedge. I rather doubt it. I think it’s too early to say if control of either house will change. But with a two vote margin in the Senate the Treasonist Party is only able to move major leg through rec. So this will most likely be the last year for the immediate future. That makes Ryan’s challenge somewhat insurmountable beyond 2018, even if Treasonists retain the House maj. The kind of senate leg. that passes muster with enough Hillbilly state Dems will not be acceptable to the suicide caucus in the House. And they aren’t going anywhere. In fact, their influence within the Treasonist caucus will probably grow. And that still leaves the impact of further Communist Treason indictments, further plea deals and publicly released Statements of Offense, release of banking records and tax filings, the appalling public spectacle of the swearing in of Sen. Aqualung, and ten million small business owners filing their first two quarterlies of 2018 while rage-smashing their keyboards. It’s going downhill for Treasonists. How far downhill will depend almost entirely on organization, voter turnout, and energy in the districts. With enough loyal American citizen push we can win control of the Senate, narrow the Treasonists control of the House enough to gain leverage, and squash the Russian Puppet’s efforts to give a communist dictator control of our government. It’s a worthy goal. Far more worthy than the MAGA Troll’s goals of delaying and obstructing the treason investigation and inventing new ways to mock and humiliate Gold Star widows.

@46 The House is more likely to flip than the Senate. Two may not sound like a lot, but we have to defend many more Senate seats than they do next year. Plus most of the GOP seats up next year are in deep red states. The House, otoh, has all seats up and this is where voters get to express their appreciation to the Repubs for raising their taxes and cutting their Social Security and Medicare to give themselves and their fellow millionaires huge tax cuts. It’s also where the articles of impeachment will originate after Trump fires Mueller, and then GOP senators will refuse to remove the traitor gangster and his crew, which sets things up very nicely for 2020 when the WH and a slew of GOP senate seats will be on the auction block.

50, I see real opportunities in the Senate in a wave year. Even if we draw to 50/50 that kills the rec. If it only takes one single Treasonist to defeat a Russian bill/nom coming out of a wave year in which the party leader is facing indictment/impeachment and virtually no chance of re-election that ends the treason game right there. Moderate Treasonists facing re-election in 2020 are going to need to play it much safer.

“Donald Trump was just 11 minutes into his presidency when his choice for national security adviser, Michael Flynn, texted a former business partner to say an ambitious U.S. collaboration with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East was ‘good to go,’ according to a new whistleblower account.”

Gonna be tough to blame that one on his lawyer. Oh, and the quid pro quo just made its appearance:

“The whistleblower also says that Flynn assured Copson that U.S. sanctions on Russia that could block the nuclear project would be ‘ripped up’ once Trump was inside the White House.”

It didn’t quite work out that way, but Putin shouldn’t be surprised, because Trump reneges on everyone else, too.

“We have confirmed that the news reports that the Special Counsel had subpoenaed financial records relating to the president are false. No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources.”

Does Sekulow know how a federal Grand Jury works? Sounds like maybe Doctor Dumbfuck knows. Fuckface might actually be better off with a disgraced ex-MD for a lawyer than this guy. MAGA trolls: this is not reassuring for your hopes and dreams.

Says the treasonous pro-Putin troll representing the party which just the other day enthusiastically endorsed a child molester for the senate and before that voted a pussy-grabbing rapist of a 13 year-old girl into the WH.

77, in which the fever dreams of MAGA trolls to “expand the Overton window” for “political correctness” are transformed into settling for “normalizing” sexual assault and pedophilia among Republican primary voters. That should turn out okay… for us.

I’ve driven by those stands. It’s like a parade of lifted F-150s purchased by Boeing machinists with their annual bonuses, waiting in line for the glimpse of flesh that looks something like what their wives used to look like. Or what they wanted them to look like.

Gotta admit, though, the GOP doesn’t defend their rapists and child molesters. They embrace them and their base consisting these days of traitors, white supremacists, the Klan, fascists, Nazis, rapists, pedophiles and goatfuckers all vote for them.

“That should turn out okay… for those of us still in office when the onslaught against the predators in our party abates.”

I suppose that’s a valid point, seeing as you keep electing known perverts such as the Alabama child molester/rapist while the Democrats are intent on ridding themselves of those who harass women.

The Democratic party obviously has a moral compass and intends to steer course by it. The other party, the one consisting of traitors, white supremacists, the Klan, fascists, Nazis, rapists, pedophiles and goatfuckers, doesn’t know the meaning of the term.

Found some estimates of the benefit of a corporate tax reduction on a local company, Costco:

We would note, our forward estimates and risk/reward analysis assumes a 34% tax rate. Given Costco’s sizable U.S. exposure, earnings will benefit if U.S. tax reform is passed. Every ~100 basis points reduction in the tax rate in our model, equates to ~$0.10 per share in earnings.

Costco’s FY18 estimated earnings are in the $6.40/sh range. Drop the corporate rate to 26% and those earnings become $7.20/sh.

Since Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit can’t afford a Barron’s subscription and has to crawl to the library on Saturdays for his weekly dose, he can’t use this info until Monday of next week. For the rest of us, it was available yesterday afternoon.

But AL may be the shape of things to come. Certainly if Steve Bannon, Fuckface, 4chan, the MRM, Breitbart, Doctor Dumbfuck, and Daily Caller have their way. Result would be general elections in which the Republican party puts forth perverted raving freak child molesters praying to snakes and guns. And the Democratic party puts forth level headed, highly qualified progressives who support education, small businesses, environmental protection, and living wage jobs. Might make AL a hold. I’m not so sure about Wisconsin.

87, Probably wouldn’t make any difference, since anyone inside the Fuckface circle smart enough to understand the trouble he is in and tell him so gets pushed outside the tent wall and smeared in the media until they quit.

@95 What would I do with that information? Sell Boeing (up 77% this year) and buy Costco (up 17% this year)? Don’t you realize Boeing, which has a 30% effective tax rate, also will get an earnings boost from a corporate tax cut? (Not that it needs one; Boeing shareholders like me are doing just fine as it is!) Not to mention a windfall from a tax holiday on the hundreds of millions it has stashed overseas?

You should research your insults better before posting them so you don’t get kneecapped like this.

“Well the Kremlin representative who I swear I never met until you proved I did meet her is a lawyer. No she’s not MY lawyer because, well, I never met her. Oh wait, You already proved I met her. But before I never met her I hired her, yeah that’s it see. She WAS my lawyer. So after I met with her I spoke to my father about the meeting but I’m not going to answer anything you ask about what I told my father who is not a lawyer because it is covered under attorney client privilege. Did I mention that there was a lawyer in the room at the meeting I was telling my NOT lawyer father about? SO IT STILL COUNTS. No, I’m not a lawyer. Why do you ask?”

“Ford Motor Co. plans to produce a future electric car in Mexico rather than make it in the U.S., reversing plans announced in January to make its Flat Rock, Mich., assembly plant near Detroit its main electric-vehicle production site.”

The student, in an interview with an investigator hired by the school in 2012, recounted that Manweller had repeatedly suggested that they get drinks together. Feeling under pressure and expecting to need Manweller’s future letter of recommendation, the student said she reluctantly agreed to meet him at the Starlight Lounge in Ellensburg. … the two women generally agreed about what happened next: Manweller ordered drinks and began asking his student about her sex life. Then he propositioned the two women to have a threesome. … Since joining the university in 2003, Manweller has been investigated twice for allegations of sexually harassing students, including the previously unreported investigation involving the woman and her friend at the bar. … But in both inquiries, outside investigators concluded there was evidence to suggest that he had violated the school’s sexual-harassment policy.

The school did not discipline him after the first investigation, citing the length of time that had elapsed since the time of the events, according to records. After the second investigation, the dean of the school’s College of the Sciences issued a letter of reprimand to Manweller, delayed his promotion to full professor and ordered him to undergo sexual-harassment training.

Which would require you to have some plan to correct your treason party leadership who are pouring support behind this disgusting, perverted pedophile Republican. Care to enlighten us????? (crickets) Still opening your filthy checkbooks. Still leaning in to support these perverted leaders. Still standing at erect attention for the Republican Dildo Navy.

You ARE in favor. You ARE a disgusting person who supports preying on children. Dont deny it. Just stop supporting it. Until you can do that you just have to OWN IT you disgusting pervert.

Much like our trolls, who have the ability to read something for accuracy before pushing “Post Comment”, Lindsey Graham is an idiot.

Lindsey Graham‏Verified account @LindseyGrahamSC 21h21 hours ago

I fully support the Trump Administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because this statement reflects the reality on the ground for the last 3,000 years.

That’s fascinating. In all my years of study I’ve never come across a reference indicating that from the mid 1500-1920s the Ottoman Empire was ruled by Israel and a lightly populated city of Jerusalem. How did Constantinople feel about that?

Sometimes, as I’m saying something my brain says, “Wait that CAN’T be right” and I stop talking until I can check. This is a U.S. Senator R-Dumbfuckistan who lacks that ability.

Just yesterday, almost at the precise moment that our sad pervert pedophile pimp troll was pleading @108, the long suffering MAGA hustler wife of Associate Justice Pubic Hair gave an award to Admiral Dildo and The Republican Dildo Navy.

Dildos, and lube, and porn movies, and pubic hairs on Coke cans, and defenseless high school freshman. These things just always seem to be swirling around the Treasonists.

“I will not seek reelection in 2020 and I will resign immediately as soon as my Colleagues have completed their investigation of accusations made by Jessica Leads, Jill Harth, Kristen Anderson, Lisa Boyne and others who have accused the president of Sexual assault. I have drawn up a subpoena for the Senate to accept testimony under oath from Donald J. Trump about these allegations and will vacate my seat the moment his testimony is concluded.”

I would respect that statement as well. I would respect it just as much as I would respect a blue slip not returned.

I would respect it more had accusers of Clinton, while he was in office, been treated with respect rather than being derided as ‘nuts and sluts’ by the Clinton Machine.

To belatedly answer James Carville, Donald Trump is what you get when you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park. Because that attitude contributed to the number of Obama voters who turned their backs on #CrookedHillary last year.

Beware of Republican-promoted voucher schools. They can be toxic for your child’s social development and mental health.

“Growing up in private evangelical Christian schools, Bishop saw the world in extremes, good and evil, heaven and hell. She was taught that to dance was to sin, that gay people were child molesters and that mental illness was a function of satanic influence. Teachers at her schools talked about slavery as black immigration, and instructors called environmentalists ‘hippie witches.’

“Bishop’s family moved around a lot when she was a child, but her family always enrolled her in evangelical schools. So when Bishop left school in 2003 and entered the real world at 17, she felt like she was an alien landing on Planet Earth for the first time.

“Having been cut off from mainstream society, she felt unequipped to handle the job market and develop secular friendships. Lacking shared cultural and historical references, she spent most of her 20s holed up in her bedroom, suffering from crippling social anxiety.”

Jones doesn’t appear to be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, either.

“Meanwhile, the conservatives who, back in the ’90s, peddled in faux outrage to manipulate and profit from Jones and her claims—then deserted her when she no longer advanced their political agenda—are the same ones who are compromising their professed Christian values in order to embrace their undeniably vulgar, possibly criminal, Republican nominee.*

“What’s most surprising, is that 16 years after acknowledging she’d been used by the far-right movement in a crusade to take down the Clintons, Jones is enthusiastically taking her place back on their team.”

* This is an old article. It was written before they embraced an irrefutably vulgar child molester as their senatorial candidate.

@128 Now here’s an intriguing question that we could spend all day discussing: Should I have said “inflaming riots” or “inciting riots”? The former term implies the riots already exist, whereas the latter implies Trump is instigating riots that previously weren’t occurring. I think one has to go with both here: Your POS is inciting and inflaming riots in the Middle East. So I told only half the story @125. I was trying to be nice. My bad. I should have known better than to be nice to Trump or a head-up-ass Trump enabler like you.

Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m pretty sure this hero is a Democrat. There are two reasons I say that. First, the odds of any randomly selected Californian being a Democrat are roughly 2-to-1. Second, if he was a Republican, he wouldn’t give a damn about the rabbit and would let it burn.

@132 “you seem hellbent on litigating the past Way before confronting the present”

Bingo! Don’t look over here! Look over there!

Btw, doc, there’s a lot of us who DIDN’T defend Bill Clinton. I, for one, didn’t vote for him either time. He didn’t get a majority of the popular vote in either of his elections. Your sexual harasser didn’t get a majority of the PV in his election, either. A substantial portion of the electorate is not on board for putting politics above character. Some of us still think character matters. That obviously doesn’t include you.

Satire is not quite dead yet. We keep poking it with a stick but it’s still breathing.

If you weren’t following, Right Wingers are stupid, but we knew that. Right wingers love to bash “Hollywood” so they should have been on board. As some Holly”wierd” were sarting to publically say Polanski should be fogiven Seder tweeted,

“Don’t care re Polanski, but I hope if my daughter is ever raped it is by an older truly talented man w/a great sense of mise en scene.”

Right Wingers should have cheered. Kind of Famous actor calls out Godless Hollywood.

But no, as we mentioned they are stupid, so almost a decade later they determined that Seder really did want his daughter raped and convinced MSNBC to (Temporarily) fire him for advocating rape. Because they’re incredibly stupid people.

Reminds me of the Fox News kerfuffle about Public Enemy’s “911 is a Joke” and how dare they disrespect the memories of all who died on that fateful day and the heroism of the first responders?!? KILL THEM!! Wait it was released in 1990 and is about how calling 911 in a black neighborhood they might never show up? Really? It’s not about Praising Allah, Are you sure? Well no, we never actually listened to it it was just a CD we saw at Sam Goody and damn that’s an offensive song title.

Bernie Sanders called for a ‘cultural revolution’ today. Perhaps he, like Goldy, does not understand that a successful revolution means there will be a lot of new Democrat faces, replacing current Democrat faces, in legislative bodies around the country, and very soon.

145, Were you thinking on your sins while Mrs. Associate Justice Pubic Hair was extolling the bravery and service of Rear Admiral Pimphand and the Republican Dildo Navy last night?

Yeah. I didn’t think so.

This shtick of yours quit working the precise moment you and 63 million other AM hate-radio programmed meat bags eagerly voted for a self-admitted rapist who openly lusts after his own daughter. You can’t credibly affect repulsion over a consensual blowjob between adults after that. It’s amusing to observe. But it simply doesn’t work. Going forward your routine will not be magically revived by pouring your stolen ducats into the effort to elect Sen. Aqualung, (R) AL, covering for Rep. Jizzcovered Duckpajamas, and valorizing Rear Admiral Pimphand and the Republican Dildo Navy.

This is who you people are now. You poured your heart and soul into electing President Russian-Puppet-Golden-Shower-Finger-Rapist who proudly celebrates white supremacists, Nazis, and the KKK. Your house is on fire. Complaining about a neighbor’s ugly paint job doesn’t change that.We don’t need no water. Let the motherfucker burn.

There are going to be quite a few WI Democrats looking for work very soon:

Given the importance of the issues presented by this report, the actions of the former GAB, and the failure of the Special Prosecutor (and the Ethics Commission) to first secure and then divest everyone of the John Doe documents, DOJ recommends that this report be unsealed and open to the public, consistent with its motion to unseal.

Under separate cover, DOJ will provide the necessary evidence for the Court to take the following actions:  Refer Attorney Shane Falk to the Office of Lawyer Regulation for knowing and repeated violation of Judge Peterson’s January 27, 2014, order;  Initiate contempt proceedings against the following individuals to remedy violations of orders of the John Doe Judge and orders of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, as more specifically outlined in a separate letter to the John Doe Judge: o Former Special Prosecutor Francis Schmitz o Former GAB employee Kevin Kennedy o Former GAB employee Shane Falk o Former GAB employee Molly Nagappala o Former GAB employee Jonathan Becker o Elections Commission Counsel Nathan Judnic o Milwaukee ADA David Robles o Milwaukee Administrator James Krueger o Milwaukee DA Investigator Robert Stelter

“Bill Moyers: You’re the consummate trial lawyer with a celebrated reputation for summing up the closing argument for the jury, but … you also have the instincts of a journalist. So write the lede to the story this far: What’s the most important thing for us to know about the Trump/Russia connection as of today?

“Steven Harper: Everything the Trump campaign told you about the connections between Trump and Russia was a lie … there were 31 interactions [and] 19 meetings … every single person who has said something about there being no connection between Trump and Russia during the campaign has been caught in a lie about it.

…

“Moyers: What’s the most recent development that strikes you as most important?

“Harper: Three different strands have now begun to coalesce. There’s a core strand running through it that I call the ‘follow the money’ strand. … Putin wants to eliminate sanctions on Russia, both because they affect him personally in a financial way and because they affect his country’s economy in a big way. So you dangle in front of Trump the prospect of a Trump Tower in Moscow. We always knew that Trump wanted a Trump Tower in Moscow, because Trump told us he did. But what we didn’t know was that during the campaign, the Trump organization was actively negotiating for such a development.

“But two other strands have come together, and we need to understand them for all this to become a cogent narrative. The second strand involves political operatives … these low-level underlings, as they are now being described to us, were getting remarkable access, and … they’re hearing back from … higher-ups.

“And the third strand is what I would call the ‘digital strand.’ Cambridge Analytica, the Kushners, WikiLeaks — they’ve started coming together in a … stunning series of interactions and communications and exchanges that show the people that Kushner hired to run the digital campaign going to WikiLeaks … three strands coalesce … around … very hot dates in the timeline.

…

“Moyers: Trump was of course looking for business in Russia … Trump’s own book … acknowledges ‘talking about building a large luxury hotel across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government.’ … Now, one has to ask: There were lots of ambitious real estate moguls looking for deals with Russia in the mid-’80s; why did they select Donald Trump? …

“Harper: Which brings us back to the second strand … the personal contacts, the personal operatives, involved in a pretty straightforward if not classic Russian intelligence operation. Russian agents — the recruiters — look for soft spots in their target … and those soft spots become points of penetration. The Russians must have been astonished at how they achieved penetration in Trump’s circle ….

“Moyers: Is there any way that Assange could be viewed as an agent of a foreign power at this point, or is he just a rogue player?

“Harper: My opinion is that during the election, he was an agent acting for the benefit for Trump … the US intelligence community is of the view that WikiLeaks was the vehicle through which Russia distributed and disseminated its hacked documents. … I think he’s clearly acting on behalf of … Russian interests.

“Moyers: What do you make of Assange and WikiLeaks urging Donald Trump Jr. to suggest to his father that if he loses the election, he should contest the election? What was that about?

“Harper: … I think the goal was chaos. … Because for Putin there are two ways for him to improve Russia’s standing. One is to figure out a way to bring his country up. One easy way would be to get some relief from the sanctions. But an equally powerful way to do it is to bring Western democracies, especially America, down. … And of course, WikiLeaks feeds right into Trump’s soft spot by suggesting … this could be good for him too …. So it all fits.

“Harper: I think he’ll do it if he thinks that things are getting too close. I think he’s already been close to doing it … it’s probably a question of when [not if], he will fire Mueller. I really fear that’s what’s going to happen. …

…

“Moyers: So, to sum up for now: What’s the most innocent explanation for everything we know? What if all of this was simply Trump’s inexperienced people trying to establish diplomatic rapport with the Russians and hoping to reset America’s connection with Moscow?

“Harper: Well, the most innocent explanation would be a level of incompetence and ignorance and stupidity that I honestly don’t think anyone could credibly believe, because the most innocent explanation is that Russia was launching a very sophisticated, multipronged intelligence operation and succeeded … because of the blind ambition and greed of the Trump organization coupled with a lack of judgment and intelligence and a fundamental failure to take into regard anything that would remotely look like patriotism when it came to the defense of democracy, subjugating all of that to the need to win. That’s the most innocent explanation. And I just don’t think all of them are that stupid.

“Moyers: So what’s the most damning explanation for everything we know?

“Harper: The most damning explanation is that the Russians launched a sophisticated intelligence operation. They found willing partners up and down the line throughout the Trump organization [and] the participants lied about it … and now they are all facing serious criminal jeopardy as a result.

…

“Moyers: One more: I assume most people believe Russia’s interference in the election last year is a bad thing, … but is it possible that by treating Vladimir Putin and his cronies as an existential threat, we’re playing directly into Putin’s hands and making him appear a more significant figure in the world than he really is?

“Harper: Well, he’s already achieved that, but the problem is, what’s the alternative? Back in January, John McCain and Lindsey Graham were on national television acknowledging the seriousness of the Russian interference. McCain called it the cyber equivalent of ‘an act of war.’ And if you acknowledge and recognize the existential threat, do you sit back and let the let the next thing happen in 2018 that Vladimir Putin wants to do? Remember, we have elections coming up next year. The uniform view of US intelligence is unambiguous, and if you don’t view it as an existential threat then you’re willing, I think, to sacrifice democracy.

“We keep hearing, ‘Yeah, but Trump was still legitimately elected, he won the election fair and square.’ Now we’re realizing that that may not even be true. I don’t personally believe that to be true anymore. I rankle every time somebody says he won fair and square, because that’s become less obvious every day.

“So the last line of defense would be, ‘Well, even if he didn’t win fair and square, he’s our president, so we’ve got to sit back and let whatever Putin’s going to do to us continue to happen because we don’t want our response to raise his standing in the world.’ Well, I would submit it raises Putin’s standing in the world even more to have an accomplice in the White House.”

– Really? So how come Apple has been stashing money in overseas accounts since well before Obama was President?

Really! Yes, you are right to a point. The issue is after the iPhone and iPad introductions is where the bulk of their funds came from. Are you toooooooooooo stoooooooooooooooopid to know this? A simple Google search will tell you how much cash was overseas in January 2009 to January 2017. Hint… the value is around a 1/4 $Trillion! Do some research!

– Like when Bush the Dumber enacted the same “Amnesty” that Trump proposed and pretty much no companies took him up on it?

Yeah, because the tax rates were not relative to the tax to be paid flat beer frothy!

What’s the matter, Doctor Dumbfuck, can’t you find any Democrats who raped a 13 year-old girl like your orange moron in the WH, or one who molested a 14 year old girl and attempted to rape a 16 year-old like your favorite Republican senate candidate?

Not enough interest to try to figure out which poll has better construct.

But Steve, #CrookedHillary said half of Trump’s supporters were in the ‘basket of deplorables’ category, and you said there were 32% deplorables in the poll. Wouldn’t that double Trump’s true approval, to 64%, once you factor in the rest of his supporters, Steve?

In its Janus brief, the Office of Solicitor General embraced the plaintiff’s argument that fair share fees violated his right to free speech. “In the public sector,” the brief said, “speech in collective bargaining is necessarily speech about public issues,” and “virtually every matter at stake in a public-sector labor agreement affects the public.” “Compelling employees to subsidize speech on politics and public policy imposes a severe burden that even highly restrictive prohibitions on speech in the workplace do not,” the brief said.

“Wouldn’t that double Trump’s true approval, to 64%, once you factor in the rest of his supporters, Steve?”

No. Anybody who still supports Trump is a “deplorable”.

You’re too funny. The only thing you could possibly do that would fuck with my mind would be to see you come out against the Republican traitors, white supremacists, the Klan, fascists, Nazis, rapists, pedophiles and goatfuckers which constitute the bulk of your party’s base these days. But I don’t see that ever happening as that would be rejection of yourself as you fall into at least two of those categories, probably more.

The blog rules are rules except when you are a senile libtard lawyer acting as a KLOWN idiot wabbit.Seems following rules is no longer your strong suit due to senility! Hence when you post more than two paragraphs from a link that will be the new response.

The only thing you could possibly do that would fuck with my mind would be to see you come out against the Republican traitors, white supremacists, the Klan, fascists, Nazis, rapists, pedophiles and goatfuckers which constitute the bulk of your party’s base these days.

That’s because he agrees with it. He knows full well what went on the last time the hardline Fascists acquired real political power in the world. He wants the same thing, again. That is what the GOP has become. They freely admit it.

Fascist political movements, without exception, have always operated in the same way, with the same basic program. That is, to reduce by any means necessary, sectors of the population the leadership has designated “surplus”.

This can be applied to any specific demographic, or a subgroup, or a wider paradigm. But it has always operated for the same purpose. It is a mass-killing cult. It is a death cult. The Conservatives have entirely embraced this. They know full well what Fascism means.

They are essentially just anarchists. They don’t want anybody telling them “no” about anything. They want to fuck little kids. They want to have the right to bully people in public. They want the right to kill anyone they want. They want to live in a violent world. They say this right out in the open.

These are people who watch Hollywood war movies or slasher flicks, and bounce on their sofas like little kids when they see blood spurting and body parts flying.

You are trying to reason with a man who has likely considered considered all the positive ramifications of a human cull, and sees no negative side to it. It certainly isn’t going to target white, wealthy, retired doctors.

I wonder if this pol (Republican) is resigning because there is more to the story. Like maybe he was filmed having sex with a goat, or maybe there is video of him at Boob’s ranch riding the ponies if you know what I mean.

@161 Yeah, that’s what I’d post, too, if I couldn’t defend the indefensible anymore. You should be grateful for my editing so you don’t have to read the whole thing to find out what fools and dupes you’ve been.

Figure it out Dumbfuck. Although this is probably more prevalent with people who have power over others, this isn’t just a pol problem. This problem of what is happening in DC is happening all over America. It is the essential make-up of One man and One Woman.

This should give every woman to wonder – is my husband cheating on me? Is my husband an asshole? Is my husband an abuser? A manipulator? An egotistical bastard? Is he going to church on the weekend only to be sinful all week at work staring down the dress of the lady coworkers at their tits? Is my husband not being truthful? Is he betraying his marriage vows.

America better shape up otherwise there will be a much bigger revolution than that you speak about.

The whole institution of marriage could collapse. See what happens when you let them gays get married!

— Fox News reports that Bruce G. Ohr was removed from his position as associate deputy attorney general on Wednesday. Ohr, who worked in close proximity to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, had contacts last year with dossier author Christopher Steele as well as with Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS. —

More amazing stuff! Was this used to start the FISA requests. Then it would be illegal!

Something Republicans aren’t talking about and not enough people are thinking about: If they add $1.5 trillion to the debt to finance tax cuts for corporations and billionaires, and then Trump goes to war against North Korea, which would add another $1.5 trillion of debt unless they’re willing to raise taxes by that amount, we’re going to get Nixonian inflation.

Forget about the iPod? It was quite revolutionary. Released in 2001 it didn’t really take off right away. MP3s were kind of a new thing. But in 2004 the now dubbed iPod Classic and Nano were released with celebrity endorsement from the band U2.

The device would go from less than 3/4 million sold between 2001-2003 to almost 25 million in 2004 ALONE!

In late 2003 iTunes would no longer be an OS only device with Windows now supported. By 2008, iTunes had an pretty astounding 78% market share of digital music sales.

By 2008 Apple was posting record revenues of US$9.6 billion and record net quarterly profit of US$1.58 billion. 42% of Apple’s revenue for the First fiscal quarter of 2008 came from iPod sales, followed by 21% from notebook sales and 16% from desktop sales.

The issue is after the iPhone and iPad introductions is where the bulk of their funds came from. Are you toooooooooooo stoooooooooooooooopid to know this?

But you clearly don’t know all this about the iPod or much about the iPhone. If you’re going to be wrong, be SPECTACULARLY wrong.

Obama’s first capital gains tax increase was enacted in 2011. At no point in his presidency was the corporate tax rate raised. The rate was 35% when he took office in 2009 and 35% when he left in 2017. The dividend tax remained unchanged at 15%. During the time from 2009 when he took office and the 2011 capital gains increase, Apple’s offshore cash grew about 300%. So how then do you explain that with zero tax increases at all on Capital gains or Corporations did Apple overseas cash balloon from about $25B to over $100B if it is the result of Obama’s tax policies? The tax policy hadn’t changed one iota but clearly those imaginary policies only you know about exploded Apple’s offshore hoarding of cash.

Are you sure you work in computers because you seem to think Apple becoming a global behemoth only came about as a result of the iPhone. Nope, nothing before that. And for the kicker, the iPhone was introduced to market and became a “killer App” in 2007 while Obama was still a longshot candidate for the nomination. Apple sold 1.7 million iPhones in 2007. That must have been Obama’s policies failing to work. (Bwaahaahaa) They sold 10 million iPhones in 2008 too. Obama’s fault.

You are a truly stupid person to make a claim like that. SPECTACULARLY WRONG!

“President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to … 32 percent …, the latest poll by Pew Research Center shows. The president’s job approval has dropped from 34 percent in October, and from 39 percent in February a few weeks after his inauguration.”

NOPE was out as you claimed long ago. Puddy said iPad and iPhone! Notice the TRAIN WRECK well know from checkmate-252? Gotta change the discussion! EPIC FAYLE!

You said – During the time from 2009 when he took office and the 2011 capital gains increase, Apple’s offshore cash grew about 300%.

—– Thanks for proving Puddy’s point. It was 35% and Obummer made it worse. The offshore money stayed there and Obummer had to appease his libtard FOOLS! You don’t even realize you made Puddy’s point! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

And we can see the flat beer frothy DID NOT search the ‘Nets to see how much $$$ Apple kept overseas from those two inventions! Hint #2 start with seekingalpha! Great site!

The rest of your “comment” is smelly DIPSHITTIUM! Close to that blog busting crap from the senile idiot wabbit!

How can the exact same tax policy held over from the previous administration unchanged “make things worse?”

Did you even graduate high school with that kind of analysis?

“I had a 100 degree fever last Monday. The doctor told me to take aspirin and I have been taking it faithfully. On tuesday my fever was 100. On Wednesday my fever was 100. On Thursday my fever was 100. on Friday my fever was 100. On Saturday my fever was 100. On Sunday my fever was 100. Today my fever is 100. ASPIRIN IS MAKING THINGS WORSE!” Piddles, or words to that effect.

@5 If Al Franken had any balls and a brain he would have told those 4 Democratic Senators, fuck off, if you don’t I’m joining my colleagues on the other side of the isle. Or as an independent like Bernie.

No we gotta set things up for Moore and well it’s not time to impeach Trump yet. (Instead of telling Al Green we don’t have the fucking votes you idiot, now go sit down and shut up.)

@4 Sounds simple but it’s not that simple. Not when you have human being vying for limited resources in a company. Competing for advancement. Some of who are pretty and handsome, some who ugly, some who are rick, some who are smart, and not so smart. Some who have morals and some well don’t. Just what is a typical workplace. Where does it start and end. What is a professional setting? The Senate or House floor is a very different workplace than a beauty parlor or barber shop. Does the gang getting together at the pub after work constitute a workplace or professional setting? Does having dinner with your male colleagues but not your female ones constitute a for of harassment?

@8 After Moore wins Al Franken may reflect and recall he works for the voters of Minnesota not his the 4 Democratic Senators who told him to resign. Though the Govenor is unlikely to choose a former rap star. Hey Garrison Kehilor is available.

@16 Only thing is the US Senate is not an industry, it’s not a workplace. Too bad Tom Perez does not respect the voters of the state of Minnesota who put the man into office and can remone him from office. The voters of Alabama get that and they have a big middle finger for Tom and some other Democratic party pricks. Tom and these 4 Democrats are the best campaigners Roy Moore has, worth far more than his own donor base.

@10 Well you were the tennis shoe mom elected to the Senate in the year of the woman. Put there to fix the problem, and what it is not fixed, Maybe the Democratic should get a Senator whi will fix it. Or is it a problem you can’t fix legislatively, but you can get elected as voters feel good electing you, though you can’t really fix the problem.

@25 Your Democratic is not a sure thing. Far from it. The Democrats of late have managed to be good at snatching defeat rather than victory. If the economy holds up and improves that will help Trump. If Trump’s Jerusalem ploy works (something supported by the silent majority in America) gets the sides to the table he looks good. If Mueller has totally screwed the investigation into Russia that helps Trump, Government shutdown probably helps Trump and the Republicans.

If more Democrats resign over sex allegations that puts more seats into play. The House Black caucus is not happy. If Franken carries out the resignation, which I don’t think he should, that places both Senate seats up for election in Minnesota. With Dems having to protect 26 seats already the odds are not good for the wave in the Senate if anything the Republicans are positioned to pick up seats. At the moment this is not shaping up like the 1930 and 32 elections. Definitely not that kind of groundswell. Dems should pick up seats in the house, but they are in a deep hole in a lot of states, so deep they have to pick up some seats just because of the law of averages.

Of course with 18 million departing the party since the election, and just how are the national party finances a mystery that swell nay be a pipedream.

@33 of course you will find stuff it is a big tent. So is the Democratic party. And neither party does much in really doing a investigation on their candidates who are running. The past Democrat who was voted in as State Auditor is a shining example.

@35 Just to be clear we are not talking about the police here, we are talking about the Sheriff. Sheriff’s arguable are a counties most powerful person. Some counties they also have the coroner powers depending on the state and local ordinances. Sheriff deputies are the folks who work for the Sheriff who are cops, but remember never call a county Mounty that, it just pisses them off. And since Sheriffs usually are only answerable to the voters that does put a bit of a conundrum on criticizing since the voters tend to keep reelecting the same Sheriff for decades. King county being a remarkable exception where the election is actually pretty competitive. Still it is an exception to the general rule.

@37 Supposedly they work for the dopes, morons, dupes who elect them into office not the other politicians of wither party that make up our national Congress. So exactly why should any politician resign? And it’s often ok if the House or Senate doesn’t seat your guy as the voters often in annoyance with those pricks in Washington send the same prick back after the special election just to remind those other pricks in Washington who they work for.

@41 Tapping out. Heck this whole thing would be a lot more fun if it were like the World Wrestling league, though the Democrats are trying to bring the act part of WWF into the fray. Maybe they should try to be more like Mexican wrestlers. Those guys right wrongs and fight for justice for the people!!! Yes Nancy Pelosi could just overcome her dead parrot status as a masked avenger in Washington righting wrongs, cleaning oil covered pelicans, calming stressed narwhales. and more. She could be “The Parrot” or she could be a dead parrot, and not survive her primary losing out the a true progressive masked avenger. (Flaming Masked Avenger after all her district is San Francisco.)

Yes, and it was after Apple increased the value of their overseas tax shelter by 300%. What is it about cause and effect you don’t understand. A normal person would conclude that right about the Time Apple started posting incredible profits for the first time in corporate history (2007-8 or so) they started taking advantage of the tax code that had existed for decades. A total dumbass who MUST see everything as the Democrat’s fault starts making up shit about tax policy like 35% < 35%

Once again, you're a lying sack and everyone knows it. As someone is so fond of saying, "Think on your sins." I'm quite sure lying is frowned upon by your church.

We awake to news that the same day DJT, Jr, and others in the campaign received and email with the subject “Hacked Clinton Emails” that contained an encryption key to retrieve them, Don Jr. Tweeted a reference to the contents of said hacked E-Mails.

Receiving and accepting intellectual property that you know 100% has been criminally obtained is a chargeable felony.

The email is believed to have been sent by hacker tied to Russian govt created DCHacks group Gucifer 2.0. (Yes, I know “Gucifer” is now believed to be not an actual person but many many hackers that are for real in the employ of the Kremlin though that has not been definitively proven U.S. Intelligence is pretty certain of it.) “I will tell you this, Russia: If you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” They were certainly listening and seemed to have delivered on your call for criminal action.

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